Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Easy things should be easy and hard things should be possible.
Larry Wall
Profanity is the one language all programmers know best.
Anonymous
A computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things, while computer programmers are smart people with the ability to do incredibly stupid things. They are, in short, a perfect match.
Bill Bryson
People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
Alan Kay
If you've seen one picture of the Mandelbrot Set, you've seen them all.
Bill Karwin
The reason we plan ahead is so that we don't have to do anything right now.
Anonymous
It takes an intelligent person to build something complex; it takes a genius to build something simple.
Anonymous
This is important, and a little hard to understand. English is useful because it's a mess. Since English is a mess, it maps well onto the problem space, which is also a mess, which we call reality. Similarly, Perl was designed to be a mess (though in the nicest of possible ways).
Larry Wall
FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed — it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.
Alan J. Perlis
A programmer never dies he just degrades gracefully.
Anonymous